Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

  BOOK DESCRIPTION  A festive, coming-of-age tale about an Oxbridge candidate and a young homeless man who find themselves in the bittersweet predicament of falling in love with exactly the right person at exactly the wrong time. Well-to-do Jed never imagined he’d end up homeless, but family circumstances have made it his only option. Local vicar, Ben, tries to help him but there’s an element of self-punishment to the homelessness that makes Jed continue to put up with his situation – until disaster leads him to re-  consider the vicar’s offer of a place to stay. Hattie is on the cusp of adulthood, frantically trying to persuade her mum that she doesn’t want to attend an elite university, preferring the idea of pursuing her love of art and textiles. When she  meets Jed, she badly wants to understand his circumstances and why, when she has everything at her fingertips, he doesn’t. Hattie’s mum, Christine, has had a hard life and is desperate for more for her only chil...